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    >   I never watched that, but did find the run of Green Acres on the net    
   and   
    > really liked the show.  I watched it once or twice when first run but   
    > thought it was stupid.  Now I saw if for the humour it had.   
      
   I'm lucky; Green Acres, Gomer Pyle, USMC, & Hogan's Heroes play nightly    
   here; the same channel has two eps of MASH earlier on (probaby my all-tiome   
   favourite sitcom); this fills my needs, so I've not hunted them up in   
   torrents. . .   
      
        
    >    That's where I get all my tv programs now.  I download them to DVD-RW   
    > then watch when I want.   
    >    There's You Tube of course, but shows tend to disappear suddenly, the   
    > reason I burn the shows.   
    >    https://www.solie.org/alibrary/updates.html is another good site.     
      
   YT isn't good for full showsm, I find; there are other sites more friendly    
   to such (running copyrighted shows); Chrome has an addon (Stream Series")    
   that has most available to watch in your browser.   
      
    > > Not knowing the rules, I won't post links, but you've likely heard of   
    > > ThePirateBay - it's still #1   
      
    >   I'll re-post the monthly rules update for you.   
    >   I am not really strict about a lot of these, since only a few people    
   in   
    > the echo.  The one's that are enforced are no discussion of current    
   religion   
    > or politics.   
      
   What mreans "current religtion"?    
      
   I'm the same in FUNNY -- the only highlighted r ule is that every post    
   shjould have funny content(I play lose & fast, as one man's joke is    
   another's dud)   
      
   In the old days, we'd have extended conversatyions on any topic & makle the   
   post "legal" with the inclusion of an ObJ (obligatory Joke tacked onto    
   bottom of post)   
      
   I suppose I'm not yet officially the mod yet as I'm not in my own point    
   yet. . .  but I will likely keep it cazh -- not enough trafic in Fido to   
   alienate potential prticipants.   
      
   My competing joke echo was micro-managed with an iron fist; he was my best   
   promoter! :D  I'd pop in, post a PG-5 joke, & get booted (again ho hum), &   
   know my promotion engine was in full effect. . .   
      
   Of course,  grew up n the 1970s, whebn life was casual.  Io'd be walking    
   home in the rain & a stranger would pull up, "Heu, kd, you want a ride?" &    
   my only thought was "What a sillyu question; of course I do -- it's    
   raining!" & I'd get a ride straight home with no concern of hijinks or   
   "stranger danger"   
      
   I also remember being thirsty on a hot (95F+) summer afternoon, & going to    
   the neartest house to turn on the outsiode spigot, engulf the spout with my   
   mouth & drink my fill.    Never thought to ask permission, unless someone    
   was standing outside, then it just seemed courteous to pro forma ask   
   permission.   
      
   We were hitchiking starting about age 8.   
      
   & even wshen tCanada's biggest serial killer was picking up teen boys on a   
   certain stretch; I was 14 & hitching that strip. I may even have been    
   picked up by him -- got picked up by someone hinky, but I handled it    
   because I was taught thinking, not fear.   
      
   I learned, at a young age, that I could run like the wind when I felt   
   threatened!   
      
   Good times.  Take your bike out to find friends to hang with, then just    
   leave it lying on their front lawn while inside playing games until their    
   mom noticed(heard) us & kicked us outside to go to another's place & repeat   
   until supper time. . .   
      
   I've left my bike overnight sometimes because the only danger was that your   
   friend might hide it to try to scare you that it was stolen.   
      
   My! How it's all changed!   
      
   One year it snowed a good 4-6 inches, so I asked my dad if I could borrow    
   the snow shovel to go shoveling drives for money.  He asked what I planned    
   to charge, & I said I was trying to dfecide between $3 or $2 & he said,   
   "Charge nothing!" (WHAAAAT??) & to set the price based ongow good a job I    
   dom & they can pay me at the end.     
      
   So off I went, slightgly concerned. .  Averaged $5-$6 each that day!   
      
   Now if I suggested this to a kid, even my own, I'd likely be arrested for    
   some thing or other, involving corrupting/abusing children. . .   
      
   The big dailies would be asking if I was getting kickbacks from local   
   homeowners for them only paying $5 for a 3-hour job.   
      
   Bah! I mind my own busdiness, mostly. . . Life is simple enough doing that    
   & having a good internet package, in which I've been known to download a Tb    
   or more in a single month!   
      
   My hometown was about 30K wben I was young at about ae 12-13 it passed 50K    
   & was redesignated as a "city" (whoopie!)   
      
   I couldn't wait to get out, as I wanted to explore the world & make my own   
   independent way without everyone knowing my minute by minute business &   
   reporting it to my parents.   
      
   I was acting like a jackass in one of our local chain grocery srtores about   
   age 6 or 7 & felt a SWAT hit my bottom! A complete stranger had just HIT    
   me!   
      
   Turns out they asked around, IDed me & gave my folks a full repoort before    
   I got home, where I had to relate the incident without deviation from the   
   other party's description.   
      
   Hoo-boy! I couldn't leave quickly enough; now, though, I'd love to live in    
   a town like that, but they're gone. . . *sigh*. .    
      
   If you've wa4ned the kids not to cut across your propertyy, & they do, you   
   could turn the hjose on them, even in January (best hurry home, kids,    
   before your clothes freeze on yas!")   
      
   Memories. .  they sure ain't what they used to be, eh?   
      
   Your friend,   
      
   <+]:{)}   
   Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM   
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